10 Things Resident Evil 7 Must Learn From The Evil Within

10. Ammo Conservation

If there's one thing Evil Within will batter you mercilessly with, it's the idea of conserving your ammunition and making every shot count. Through the inclusion - and occasional necessitation - of burning bodies after you've brought them down to avoid a resurrection, if you use that one bullet you had to pop a zombie in the knee, you can torch his corpse as the others stand around it, to engulf the lot in one move.

That's just one technique you'll cook up along the way, as in addition to standard weaponry you'll get multi-faceted 'Agony Crossbow' and a range of crossbow bolts, ranging from electrifying enemies to freezing them solid. Using a Flash Bolt can make a whole group stagger, opening them up to one-hit kills from behind - or you could freeze and shatter them with a Freeze Bolt whose blast radius catches a bunch together.

It's in this experimentation that you'll find new ways to take on the heaps of enemies Evil Within throws at you, and providing you don't miss too many shots and are left running around the battlefield instead of engaging, this approach to combat is actually remarkably refreshing in a landscape where every other title lets you shower the opposition with bullets throughout.